Being a security analyst tracking down threats can feel like being the Wile E. Coyote to an attacker’s Road Runner. You’re fast, but they’re faster. You set up alerts, but they still manage to get past your defenses. You’re monitoring systems, but they’re still able to hide their criminal activities.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an annual initiative observed every October, aimed at promoting cybersecurity awareness and encouraging adopting safe online practices among the public. Launched in 2004 by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and the U.S.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) allow your applications to talk to one another, like an application-to-application iMessage or Signal. If you’ve ever texted a message to the wrong group chat, you’ve created a situation that mimics what broken function level authentication does between users and applications.

Any company that processes payments knows the pain of an audit under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Although the original PCI DSS had gone through various updates, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) took feedback from the global payments industry to address evolving security needs.

The stakes are higher than ever for CISOs. Just one breach can be catastrophic for an organization, and new rules and regulations add even more pressure. We surveyed 200 CISOs on the current landscape, and asked a handful of them for advice on how to overcome today’s challenges. Here are some of the key recommendations for CISOs who are navigating today’s cyber landscape.

In an era marked by an increasing volume and sophistication of cyber threats, the efficiency of your SOC operations has become more important than ever. SOCs are flooded by a daily barrage of attacks and alerts, with a significant portion being false positives, leading to alert fatigue and the potential for genuine threats to slip through the cracks.

Alert triage can be a very cumbersome and time consuming process for SOC teams. Our recent State of Security report found that 26% of respondents agree that the volume of alerts they deal with makes it difficult to keep up with addressing emergencies. While tools like virtual sandboxes can help analysts better test and understand the severity of the threats they encounter, the process of testing and documenting results can add further tedium to an already prolonged process.

Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), which is the tenth consecutive time for Splunk in the Leaders Quadrant. We are incredibly honored to receive this recognition and are grateful to our customers and partner community for making this recognition possible.

You can’t secure what you can’t see goes the saying in cybersecurity. That’s why holistic visibility is so crucial for organizations tasked with staying safe in the evolving threat landscape, as it gives you full visibility into your environment. But there’s another adage that matters even more, because without access to log sources and the proper ingestion of their data, you can’t see the forest for the trees. But what are log sources? What does proper ingestion look like?